Last year I went on holiday to Provence in France at the height of lavender season. The heat, rich earthy smells and country sounds were so intense and ...

After having first read O'Donnell's short fiction year's ago in the excellent anthology “The Long Gaze Back” it's exciting to see that this talented ...

Here are the 16 novels longlisted for the 2025 Womens Prize for Fiction! A new video is up on my YouTube channel discussing all these titles: ...

I've had mixed experiences reading Tokarczuk's work in the past. I didn't get on with “Flights” but loved “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead”. ...

I was encouraged to finally read this great big German classic after stopping in Davos during a holiday. We tried to visit the hotel and former ...

It's terrifying to consider how a person can lose everything in an instant. Not only that but the people closest to us might be hiding terrible secrets. ...

A physically and emotionally scarred man returns to his hometown after many years of having lived away in the city. His mother has died and he's there to ...

To say that Blue & Lonesome is the best Rolling Stones studio album in over a decade is a no-brainer. Despite the recurring, immortal presence of ...

This month marks the centenary of Mishima's birth so it felt like a good time to read his gay coming-of-age modern classic first published in 1949. ...

It's tricky trying to summarize how I feel about Alicia Elliott's debut novel as the experience of reading it was often frustrating, but the power of its ...